September 2018 – Wireless Flirt

September 24, 2018August 31, 2019

Into the licensed era: Horizon Radio in Bray

By the autumn of 1989 I was pretty despondent about radio, having filled my teenage summers with pirate bliss only to see it snuffed out when the sector was finally regulated. There were a lot of unemployed former pirates in …

September 3, 2018August 18, 2019

Programme #22 (September 2018)

On the first programme of series 3 of Wireless on Flirt FM we have a distinctively pirate theme. Broadcast historian Eddie Bohan tells us about his travelling pirate radio exhibition currently running in Galway and Liam Byrnediscusses the history …

Wireless Flirt is a blog from Ireland by a self-confessed radio addict. My day job is in academia but radio is one of my hobbies. Sometimes the hobby meets the day job. Wireless is also the name of a monthly series about radio which I present on Flirt FM on 101.3 FM in Galway and online.

Wireless covers all aspects of radio: analogue and digital broadcasting, community, regional and national broadcasters, niche broadcasting, pirate and alternative radio, podcasting, questions of ownership and diversity and aspects of radio’s past, present and future. The programme is broadcast from 3-4pm on the first Monday of every month.

John Walsh